I have been thinking about your awesome birth story over the last few days (as well as relaying it to a pregnant friend and a planning to be pregnant and homebirth friend ) I have found it so inspiring. I realised that your labour sounds very much like my first labour. Baby with a deflexed head, not applying correct pressure to the cervix, cervix not dilating properly, leaving me labouring with constant contractions for days.

The big difference between your labour/birth and mine though was that you had set yourself up with a midwife who knew what to do. You trusted her and you got your baby moving. I ended up with exhaustion, resignation and a c-section after my midwives shrugged their shoulders and looked at the clock. I made sure not to make the same mistakes in my second birth but I really take my hat off to you for figuring that all out for your first birth!

You ought to be very proud.